Town councillor Jimmy Lazatin, an organiser of the event, said that the crucifixions were a way of attracting tourists who bought hats, sunglasses, soft drinks, snacks and shirts from vendors who converged at the site.

It is reasonable to believe in a Resurrected Jesus because His defeated, frightened fishermen followers could only have been emboldened to buck the tide and start a new religious offshoot of Judaism – the EArly Church – while in the face of oppression and crucifixions – They could only have been emboldened by the Resurrected Christ Himself.

Consider the genocides in the Old Testament and the crucifixions in the New, the gory mutilations in Shakespeare's tragedies and Grimm's fairy tales, the British monarchs who beheaded their relatives and the American founders who dueled with their rivals.

Or is the hypothesis that crucifixions for insurrection were such commonplaces at the time that nobody in the administration bothered to keep tabs on whose followers were whose and essentially behaved in an ad hoc reactionary fashion to each new insurrectionist or nationalist challenge?

It is reasonable to believe in a Resurrected Jesus because His defeated, frightened fishermen followers could only have been emboldened to buck the tide and start a new religious offshoot of Judaism –the EArly Church–while in the face of oppression and crucifixions –They could only have been emboldened by the Resurrected Christ Himself.